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Encyclopedia > Sculptured
Sculptured

Origin Bellingham, Washington
Years active 1996–present
Genres Avant garde metal, Doom metal, Death metal
Labels The End Records
Members Don Anderson, John Haughm, Jason William Walton, Dave Murray, Brian Yager

Sculptured is an American heavy metal band. Bellingham, Washington is the county seat of Whatcom County in the U.S. state of Washington. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... A music genre is a category (or genre) of pieces of music that share a certain style or basic musical language (van der Merwe 1989, p. ... Avant garde metal, sometimes called experimental, is a subgenre of heavy metal characterized by large amounts of experimentation and by non-standard sounds, instruments, and song structures. ... Doom metal is a form of heavy metal that emerged as a recognized genre of metal in the mid-1980s. ... Death metal is a sub-genre of heavy metal that evolved out of thrash metal during the early 1980s. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The End Records is an independent metal and rock record label based in Salt Lake City, Utah. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Heavy metal music. ...

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Overview

The music of Sculptured is experimental in its style, mixing classic death and doom metal riffs and vocals to atonal segments and unexpected brass sections. This is particularly evident on the first track of Apollo Ends, "Washing my Hands of It". The band also introduces classical orchestrations in some of its pieces. Death metal is a sub-genre of heavy metal that evolved out of thrash metal during the early 1980s. ... Doom metal is a form of heavy metal that emerged as a recognized genre of metal in the mid-1980s. ... Image of a trumpet. ... Classical music is a broad, somewhat imprecise term, referring to music produced in, or rooted in the traditions of, European art, ecclesiastical and concert music, encompassing a broad period from roughly 1000 to the present day. ...


Vocalists Don Anderson and Brian Yager alternate growled and clean vocals. The death grunt (also referred to as death growl, death vocal, vokills or, derisively, cookie monster vocal) is a singing style usually employed by vocalists of the death metal musical genres, but also can be heard in a variety of other heavy metal subgenres. ... In popular music, the term clean vocals refers to singing that is melodic and crisp. ...


The history and fate of Sculptured is inherently related to that of another folk/doom metal band, Agalloch. In fact, with the release of Ashes Against The Grain in August 2006, the future of the band was quite uncertain. Members have since then confirmed a new opus was in the process of being recorded[1]. Folk metal is a sub-genre of heavy metal that incorporates elements of folk music. ... Doom metal is a form of heavy metal that emerged as a recognized genre of metal in the mid-1980s. ... Agalloch is an American atmospheric folk metal and experimental band formed in 1996 in Portland, Oregon. ... Track listing Limbs Falling Snow This White Mountain on Which You Will Die Fire Above, Ice Below Not Unlike the Waves Our Fortress Is Burning. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


New material for 2006

While the band has not had a new release since 2000, a new full-length album entitled Embodiment is in the works and should be released through the band's label, The End Records. Members of the band have commented on the new album: This article is about the year 2000. ... The End Records is an independent metal and rock record label based in Salt Lake City, Utah. ...

Taking their influence from the musical iconoclast and prankster Charles Ives, Sculptured aims to upset death metal harmony and melody. Following in the heels of Rock in Opposition artists Henry Cow, and Dimension Hatröss-era Voivod, the band flats their fifths and sharps their sevenths for unlistenable and awkward chords.[1]

This photo from around 1913 shows Ives in his day job: he was the director of a successful insurance agency. ... Death metal is a sub-genre of heavy metal that evolved out of thrash metal during the early 1980s. ... Flyer for the 1st RIO festival, 12 March 1978, The New London Theatre, London. ... Henry Cow performing in Fresnes, France, 16 November 1975 Left to right: Tim Hodgkinson, Lindsay Cooper, Dagmar Krause, John Greaves, Chris Cutler and Fred Frith Henry Cow was a British avant-garde rock group, founded at Cambridge University in 1968 by multi-instrumentalists Fred Frith and Tim Hodgkinson. ... Fourth album from the Canadian metal/cyberpunk band Voivod. ... Voivod is a Canadian thrash metal band formed in 1982, and reportedly the first to describe themselves as cyberpunk. ...

Discography

To be released

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Personnel

  • Don Anderson (Agalloch, ex-Nothing, ex-Darling) - guitar, vocals
  • John Haughm (Agalloch, ex-Nothing, Landfill, Lotus 78, A Den of Wolves) - guitar
  • Jason William Walton (Especially Likely Sloth, ex-Subterranean Masquerade, Nothing) - bass
  • Dave Murray (Tholus, The Deserts of Träun) - drums
  • Brian Yager - vocals

Agalloch is an American atmospheric folk metal and experimental band formed in 1996 in Portland, Oregon. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... In music a singer or vocalist is a type of musician who sings, i. ... Agalloch is an American atmospheric folk metal and experimental band formed in 1996 in Portland, Oregon. ... Martin EB18 Bass Guitar in flight case The electric bass guitar (also called The electric bass or simply The bass) is an electrically amplified fingered (or plucked) string instrument. ... For other kinds of drums, see drum (disambiguation). ...

Notes

  1. ^ a b Sculptured blog (HTML). MySpace. Retrieved on 2006-07-05.

2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... July 5 is the 186th day of the year (187th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 179 days remaining. ...

See also

Agalloch is an American atmospheric folk metal and experimental band formed in 1996 in Portland, Oregon. ...

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ArtLex on Sculpture (262 words)
"After painting comes Sculpture, a very noble art, but one that does not in the execution require the same supreme ingenuity as the art of painting, since in two most important and difficult particulars, in foreshortening and in light and shade, for which the painter has to invent a process, sculpture is helped by nature.
Baroque goldsmith and sculptor, in a letter to Benedotto Varchi, January 28, 1547.
"Sculptures are drawings you fall over in the dark." Al Hirschfeld (1904-2003), American caricaturist.
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Sculpture (6648 words)
sculpture, especially in stone, was predominantly subordinated to architecture and served almost exclusively for ecclesiastical purposes.
Sculpture in the United States is a development of the last three quarters of the nineteenth century.
sculpture was ushered in by the Centennial Exposition at
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